One of the most common reasons for people to go online is to search for health information. 55% of those with Internet access have used the Web to get health or medical information – reference survey by Pew Internet Survey. Said so the present form of web information is limited to learn about diseases, obtain information about health care providers etc. There are very few tools available online to help individual with specific to his current condition to interact with doctor. Â
But now the prospect of healthcare IT is transforming quickly. Recently Microsoft launched healthvault.com which allows people of US to store their medical data and share with their doctor. Googlehealth is fast moving in field recently tested its application with the Cleveland clinic. Â
www.ehealthopinion.com is our effort to take healthcare IT to masses. eHealthopinion is the platform to connect (like ebay for product) patient; referring doctor and expert doctor. Using our application patient can able to prepare his case profile and send it to doctor for second opinion, line of treatment or follow up. Patient’s file consist medical data like ECG, x-ray, history, lab report etc. The application consist step by step information and tools to acquire patient’s data scientifically. Patient selects doctor and sends data to him. Doctor view and interpret patient’s data and write and send his opinion / prescription back to patient. Â
eHealthopinion is launched on 24th July 2007. 175 doctors from 28 courtiers and 250 patients are registered with us till date. At present the service for patient is completely free of cost. Â
Anticipating feedback. Thanks. Â
Devendra Patel
- Introducing eHealthopinion.com - May 6, 2008
I’d like to introduce http://www.HealthcareMagic.com. A Health 2.0 Start-up is coming-up in Bangalore.
Usually we come across this situation when we’re looking for a Doctor or Hospital in the nearby location? Wondering whether the Doctor is good or bad? How do his patients rate him? Worst, you want to crib about a Doctor who gave you all those costly medicines for no bloody reason?
HealthcareMagic is a good solution in this case… HealthcareMagic is India’s first Health 2.0 Portal bridging the gap between end-users like us and Healthcare services in an interactive Web 2.0 user-friendly way.
Some great features in the sites I noticed are, and all services are free…
* Chat with a Doctor online for FREE!
* Talk to a Doctor online for FREE on the Phone!
* Doctors available Online from 9.00 AM – 9.00 PM IST
* Share your experiences, write reviews about Doctors & Hospitals you visited or know.
* Search & Compare Doctors & Hospitals in Bangalore
* Patient information are fully CONFIDENTIAL
* Interactive features like Health Calculators & Hospitalization Cost Calculators which helps you take your decisions
In last 2 months of operation the site recorded 100000+ visitors and more than 4000 chats on the portal. HealthcareMagic is planning to expand to all 4 metros, Hyderabad, Chandigarh & Pune by this year end.
I personally found the Chat with a Doctor very useful… anyone can get online with a qualified Doctor from anywhere.
Being in healthcare industry I learnt a hard lesson to quote reference. Pew Internet Survey is the reference for the statement. You may be correct that healthcare might not be most common reason.
Obviously I have to make the introduction short. In practice doctor gets alert message “you have received new patient†in his registered email id. Similarly patient gets alert message (email) when doctor responds.
The registered doctor at our site agreed to provide the service without any cost. They are not taking any consultation charges at present and same way we are. Also the registration for doctor and patient are free from our side. The biggest challenge is to check authenticity of registered doctor.
Thanks for the feedback.
‘One of the most common reasons for people to go online is to search for health information.”
Thats a very wrong opening statement. I cant remember when was the last time I was looking up for medical info, neither can most folks I know. So yeah, probably “most common” isnt the right set of words.
“Patient selects doctor and sends data to him. Doctor view and interpret patient’s data and write and send his opinion / prescription back to patient.”
Is the doctor waiting/expecting the data from the patients via this channel? If its not the primary channel, and if they have to login into a system to check, have you factored in time delays and neglect factors?
“At present the service for patient is completely free of cost.” Is the doctor paying? Just curious about the specificity of the “patient”
Another feedback: Use Spellcheck 🙂 Might be just a perception, but when folks from the healthcare industry make spelling mistakes, it scares me 🙂
Looks like a very interesting service. Nice job, all the best!
Nice website, used it recently and it works !!! got the doctors reply very next day and that too from US and the opinion was really worth……really a good concept and will help a lot to patients like me…